We study the importance of conditional cooperation in a one-shot public goods game by using a variant of the strategy …

voluntary cooperation in team production. Our experimental data suggest an indirect and gender-specific link: Overconfident men …

International climate negotiations have so far failed to produce ambitious climate cooperation. We combine laboratory … negotiate more frequently. We find that more frequent interactions allow subjects to build trust and cooperation more safely …. Thus, more frequent revisions of commitments promote cooperation, but the ratchet-up design fails to achieve the same …

Existing research supports two opposing mechanisms through which positive mood might affect cooperation. Some studies … have suggested that positive mood produces more altruistic, open and helpful behavior, fostering cooperation. However … reduced use of information, hampering cooperation. We find evidence that suggests the second hypothesis dominates when playing …

opportunity for profitable cooperation. Our experimental method creates two groups of subjects who are similar but have different … long-run losses. Initially similar, cooperation rates for groups with different intelligence levels diverge, declining in … groups of lower intelligence, and increasing to reach almost full cooperation levels in groups of higher intelligence …

tendency to be influenced by and conform with peers domain-general? In an online experiment (N = 815), we studied peer effects … in honesty and cooperation and tested the individual-level links between these two moral domains. Participants completed … both honesty and cooperation tasks after observing their peers. Consistent with the literature, separate analysis of the …

We examine the effect of payoff variations on cooperation in one-shot prisoner's dilemma games. We focus on three … impact on cooperation. Temptation directly deters cooperation and indirectly harms cooperation by lowering beliefs about the … opponent's cooperativeness. Efficiency indirectly affects cooperation through beliefs, but the magnitude of the effect is …

A growing experimental literature studies the endogenous choice of institutions to solve cooperation problems arising … of institutional choice. Almost all institutions improve cooperation if they are implemented, but they are not always … identified as important determinants of institutional choice. Cooperation tends to be higher under endogenously chosen …

A growing experimental literature studies the endogenous choice of institutions to solve cooperation problems arising … of institutional choice. Almost all institutions improve cooperation if they are implemented, but they are not always … identified as important determinants of institutional choice. Cooperation tends to be higher under endogenously chosen …

tendency to be influenced by and conform with peers domain-general? In an online experiment (N = 815), we studied peer effects … in honesty and cooperation and tested the individual-level links between these two moral domains. Participants completed … both honesty and cooperation tasks after observing their peers. Consistent with the literature, separate analysis of the …